To be fair, that was Larry Wall reacting to criticism in 1994 https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!msg/comp.lang.lisp/edcyFOBLMeo/MgB1ogL7AHcJ https://g

To be fair, that was Larry Wall reacting to criticism in 1994 https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!msg/comp.lang.lisp/edcyFOBLMeo/MgB1ogL7AHcJ https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!msg/comp.lang.l... Anyways, my experience is that all languages will get people criticizing them. And, in my experience, those kinds of criticisms should almost always be categorized as "does not want to talk about language FOO" and a proper response is probably something like "if you don't want to give that subject the respect it deserves, let's change the subject to something you find interesting".